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mingled mess of meal and dung, of equal use to the 

 hogs to lie and wallow in, as to feed upon. To speak 

 guardedly, I have no doubt that, in former days at 

 least, one bushel of corn in three has been in this 

 mode converted to dung, without ever having entered 

 the bodies of the animals. Two or three years since, 

 a farmer published the following experiment, as an 

 improvement of the established mode of pig-feeding. 

 He took two pigs of the same litter, and of equal 

 weight, and fed them apart, one in the usual way on 

 barley-meal mixed with swill, the other ate his meal 

 dry, and had his drink given him an hour afterwards. 

 At the end of six weeks, both hogs were weighed, 

 when the one fed on dry food was a stone heavier 

 than the other! The reader will judge whether this 

 difference arose from the constitutional superiority of 

 the heaviest pig, or the superiority of the new mode 

 of feeding. Experiments on the point may be easily 

 made. The following is also newspaper information. 

 On December 29th, 1828, two pigs of the same litter 

 were killed by Mr. Williamson, at Scarby, near Brigg, 

 one weighing 43 stone lOlbs., and the other 47 stone 

 61bs. They were little more than three months old. 

 This being correct, is a more profitable instance of 

 pig-breeding than ever came within my knowledge. 

 I wish Mr. W. had stated the breed of these pigs. 



Various articles for FATTENING swine. Skimmed 

 milk, and pea, oat, or barley meal, rank first in point 

 of excellence with respect to the quality of flesh, 

 milk-fed pork being superior to any other description, 

 not only in delicacy of flavour, but in substance and 

 weight, none weighing so heavy in proportion as the 



